A closer look

Room planning

Connect small changes to the room around them.

Room planning

Measure a room for trim without losing the details

A useful survey records corners, openings and obstructions as well as the long wall dimensions.

Room planning

A molding profile is partly a shape and partly the shadow it casts. A sample on the kitchen table shows only half the story.

Room planning

An uneven paint edge is a different problem from decayed material. Look at condition and continuity before deciding to replace a room's woodwork.

Room planning

A few extra millimeters at the wall can change how a cabinet, headboard or door sits in the room.

Room planning

Matching every dimension is rarely possible. A shared profile family can connect unlike openings without pretending they are identical.

Room planning

Choose a room that reveals the difficult junctions. A beautiful but unusually simple test may tell you very little about the rest of the house.

Room planning

Cabinets do not need to copy every molding profile. They do need a considered meeting point at the wall, floor and ceiling.

Room planning

Boards that fit the room may not fit the elevator, stair turn or storage space on the way to it.

Room planning

The leftover offcut and paint label can be more useful in two years than a folder full of wide room photographs.